The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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